From the Sepulveda Recreation Center in Encino to Carson’s StubHub Center to San Pedro’s outer harbor on the L.A. Waterfront, venues spread across Los Angeles County would find themselves in a global spotlight if Los Angeles secures its bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Details of the bid were rolled out this week, and the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday agreed to form an ad hoc committee to oversee the city’s push to win the nod from the International Olympic Committee.

A 200-page draft bid book released Tuesday by LA24, the nonprofit agency leading the Los Angeles bid, lists proposed event venues in groups, including a Valley cluster, Hollywood cluster, downtown cluster, coastal cluster, South Bay cluster and “other venues” that take in The Forum in Inglewood (for volleyball), the Rose Bowl in Pasadena (for soccer), the L.A. Waterfront (for sailing) and Lake Casitas (for rowing and the canoe sprint).

A renovated Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum would serve as the games’ centerpiece for opening and closing ceremonies.

Carson’s StubHub facilities, on the campus of Cal State Dominguez Hills, also play prominently in the plans. Missing from the lineup (so far) is Long Beach.

The City Council’s ad hoc committee meets Friday for the first time to discuss a joinder agreement needed as the first step toward submitting Los Angeles as a bid city. The U.S. Olympic Committee, by Sept. 15, must submit its chosen bid city to the IOC, where it will be considered among other cities worldwide.

The first goal for L.A. is to be the U.S. committee’s bid choice, and many say its chances look good; but a final decision by the international body won’t be made until 2017.

The cost of hosting the 2024 Olympics in Los Angeles is estimated at $4.6 billion, with projected revenue of $4.8 billion and a profit of $161 million going to LA24, according to officials with the nonprofit.

If Los Angeles eventually wins the bid, it could bring millions of dollars of investment into San Pedro and the emerging L.A. Waterfront.

“Once we knew the games were coming, there would be more interest in developers and investors taking another look at San Pedro,” said Doane Liu, deputy executive director and chief of staff at the Port of Los Angeles. “It would be a huge incentive. … It would put the L.A. Waterfront on the map.”

Hotel development would be among the needed improvements, Liu said.

“It would require a lot of hotel rooms for athletes and for sailing associations — there would be a couple hundred countries competing — so my guess is that there would be an opportunity for some speculative hotel development, not necessarily on port property.”

Talks began about a year ago, said Liu, former chief of staff for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Most wanted to designate San Diego for the sailing events, although it was shown that wind conditions there in August wouldn’t be conducive to sailing.

“I finally showed them pictures of the new (Cabrillo) Marina and the Outer Harbor,” Liu said. Also presented were selling points such as Point Fermin Park and other picturesque viewing locations for spectators.

With that, the group finally agreed on San Pedro.

An estimated $8 million would be needed to set up bleachers and temporary storage areas at the Outer Harbor, he said.

“I pushed really hard to have rowing in the (Main Channel) in the harbor, but we’d have to shut down the port,” Liu said. Rowing, under the preliminary venue map, would be held at Lake Casitas.

South Bay cluster (all in Carson)

• StubHub Center soccer stadium (rugby)

• StubHub tennis stadium (tennis)

• Velodrome (cycling)

Supporters of L.A.’s bid cite major selling points such as the city’s existing venue infrastructure — some 90 percent of those proposed already are in place, so costly temporary construction would not be needed — and the large number of former Olympic athletes who live in Southern California.

And, of course, there’s the weather.

“This is the first step of many, and it’s not guaranteed,” Liu said of the city’s 2024 Olympic prospects, but added, “I think we’ve got a great team led by the mayor and (sports agent) Casey Wasserman, and they can sell our city and the concept better than anyone.”

Donna Littlejohn has covered the Harbor Area as a reporter since 1981. Along with development, politics, coyotes, battleships and crime, she writes features that have spotlighted an array of topics, from an alligator on the loose in a city park to the modern-day cowboys who own the trails on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. She loves border collies and Aussie dogs, cats, early California Craftsman architecture and most surviving old stuff. She imagines the 1970s redevelopment sweep that leveled so much of San Pedro's historic waterfront district as very sad.

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